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In human eyes (and most mammals’ & birds’) the iris controls the size of the pupil & the amount of light reaching the retina. Eye colour is defined by the iris. It is named thus after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, who served as a messenger of the gods.

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According to a Persian scientist ابو علی حسین بن عبدالله بن سینا (Avicenna), your soul can affect other people’s bodies the same way it affects yours.

For example, a malevolent glare of your eyes can cause curses and deceases.




🌙Lera Whoami

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2022-10-24

September's mythological coloring page was Wolpertinger! I cannot resist a bunny shaped monster lol. Took inspiration on their coloration from the black grouse which have really epic plumage

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2022-10-18

Athena turning Arachne into a spider was done out of pity: she had not meant for Arachne to hang herself after the goddess destroyed her flawless tapestry and loom, better than her own. Many, however, take this as a curse.

🖼: G. Dore

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Anansi Stories became the Old Brer Rabbit Stories.

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In Tsuchigumo (earth spider) is a gigantic spider It is believed that long-lived spiders can gain supernatural powers and become yokai whereupon they grow to enormous sizes. They live in forests or mountain caves...

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Uttu, the Mesopotamian goddess of weaving, taught mortal women to weave, ushering in a new era in which humans less often froze to death or burned in the sun. Her name means woven in Sumerian & resembles the Akkadian word for spider, ettūtu.

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The best way to sow stars is in the company of two gargantuan bull-rams.


by Valera Lutfullina

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In the 1800s Pennsylvanians tied red scarves onto mannequins to scare crows away from their crops. They named their new type of scarecrow, “Bogeyman.”
- Old Pennsylvania Folklore.

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Irish peat fae, Ballybogs are strange looking creatures with disproportioned bodies. They appear to have been dipped in mud & prefer to keep to themselves in their mud holes. They are known to prank unsuspecting human travelers & lead them astray from the path.

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A Cherokee earth diver creation myth tells how Dayunsi the water beetle dived below the sea to the sea floor and grabbed a lump of soft mud and returned to the surface. On the surface, the mud swelled expanding into an island called land https://t.co/YpGXhB3ppp

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If you ever wake up to find muddy little footprints around your bedroom, it might be because you've had a visit from a known as makuragaeshi (pillow flipper), which isn't always a good thing. More info in the thread below.
🎨Sophie Lupas
https://t.co/wvE7zFIz9s

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2022-10-03

“I dream of rivers with a hundred mouths and mountains where the leaves turn over like silver fire. Take me there, Dionysus”
- Euripides, from ‘Bakkhai

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Waterhouse painted 'Sleep & his half brother Death' in 1874, after his two younger brothers died from T.B. The figures are based on the Greek myth of Hypnos (sleep) & Thanatos (death) Sleep holds poppies in his hand to show that he is dreaming.

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In Galician folklore, Pedro Chosco is an old man with a half-closed eye. He puts children to sleep with gentle caresses, although it prefers to seduce girls (especially maids)....

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Nightmares are more than just the horrors that fill our dreams: the mare is a Germano-Slavic haunt that terrorizes dreams and could cause sleep paralysis in addition to terror.

🖼️: H. Fuseli

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We forget just how powerful Hypnos is, but one of the Orphic hymns gives a good idea, calling him:

Sleep [Hypnos], king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sov'reign of all sustain'd by mother Earth;

Art: Balthasar Beschey

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Sleep Paralysis is when your body has switched off, your mind half awake and your dreams still running - you lie paralysed and hallucinating (giant spiders in my case). In mythology there are descriptions of demons or hags suffocating sleepers

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Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos(Death) were brothers or sometimes half-brothers in Greek mythology who lived beside each other in the underworld.

Waterhouse - Sleep and his half-brother Death

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